What Are Your Morning Rituals? 🌄

I don’t have any morning rituals because I’m not a creature of habit, which a lot of times is to my detriment. But the morning ritual I strive to achieve is to wake up at 6am.

6:00am: Waking up at 6 is kind of hard because I am really only woke once the sun hits my face, so thanks to daylight savings time, I’m screwed. But I usually start my “wake up” routine by using the bathroom (eh hem), watching some light news on GMA, feeding the cats and cleaning the litter pan.

6:15am: Yoga. It takes me a bit to wake up, but at 6:15, I’d like to do yoga for about 10 minutes just to stretch. People severely underestimate the power of stretching. I did too until I did it everyday for an entire year during the lockdown from the pandemic and it worked wonders.

6:30am: Brisk walking. After yoga stretches, walking for 20 – 30 minutes really clears my head. I put in my earbuds, hit “play” on Spotify and the head movies start to roll. Not only that, but it also just gets the blood flowing and my energy charged up for the day. If it’s bad weather outside, or I just don’t feel like being out there, then I just get on the treadmill while watching a Netflix movie. Again, brisk walking is another undervalued health benefit.

7:00am: Breakfast and vitamins. I have tried to get myself in the habit of eating a breakfast. Eating breakfast not only energizes my morning because it’s usually just a fruit or salad, but I also take my vitamin D. My doctor says I’m running low on it, so I take it everyday with food.

8:00am: Bathe. Not much to say on this. I brush my teeth and shower. I throw on some Spotify music, get in the tub and perform some shower karaoke. I do my hair and makeup, if necessary.

9:00am: Write. One of my new year resolutions was to write more. I had stopped blogging and all of my hobbies for a long time, so this was important to me. So from 9 – 10am, I push myself to write something for an hour. Most of the time it’s these Daily Prompts. 🦉